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		<title>New Edutopia Post: 7 Tips for Digital Learners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My latest post on Edutopia just went live.  &#8220;7 Tips for Digital Learners&#8221; picks apart some of the skills that students of any age should have in order to succeed online.  Of course, that&#8217;s not to say that there aren&#8217;t steps that teachers can take to encourage the development of these tips, but that&#8217;s for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2012/02/02/new-edutopia-post-7-tips-for-digital-learners/</link>
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		<title>Teaching Beyond the Bell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of The California Writing Project and Digital Learning Day, I was asked to write a post on some of what I&#8217;m doing with technology in the classroom.   So I decided to write about what I&#8217;m actually doing outside of the classroom&#8230;in a virtual classroom that is.
You can read the post, &#8220;Using Technology [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2012/01/18/teaching-beyond-the-bell/</link>
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		<title>Tweenteacher Class on Project Based Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey all,
Guess what?  I&#8217;m going to be facilitating a class for Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach&#8217;s Powerful Learning Practice.  The six-week course is on Project Based Writing, a strategic way to bring in authentic assessments and meaningful learning into any Language Arts program, elementary through secondary.
If you know anything about my teaching style, it&#8217;s about reciprocal learning, engaging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2012/01/09/tweenteacher-class-on-project-based-writing/</link>
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		<title>Edutopia Post: Trying Something New in Your Classroom for 30 Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just recently posted a new article on my Edutopia blog, one that challenges teachers to try something new in their classroom for 30 days.  As many of my readers know, my students are currently working on their Advocacy/Memoir speeches that mimic those presented at TED.  In a recent assignment, I asked my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/12/19/edutopia-post-trying-something-new-in-your-classroom-for-30-days/</link>
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		<title>A Tribute to Tony, our School Counselor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At times, I find myself in awe of some of the dedicated and self-sacrificing individuals that have devoted themselves to our students.  These are the diamonds, the people who live this work, who breathe it, who take home the lost battles and get up everyday to battle again.  One such person is our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/12/15/a-tribute-to-tony-our-school-counselor/</link>
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		<title>Sharing the Responsibility: Should Senior Citizens be Exempt from Funding Education?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I work in a Title I school district some 15 minutes away from home.  I live in a school district, however, that is ranked in the top 4% of those in my state.  Our state assessment scores rank 125 points higher than the “target for excellence.”  Over 90% of our graduates in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/12/04/sharing-the-responsibility-should-senior-citizens-be-exempt-from-funding-education/</link>
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		<title>Choosing a Topic for our Ted.com Speeches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m currently prepping my classes for another research unit, this one a blend of Memoir, Advocacy, and Speech Writing.  After all, never in real life are genres categorized.  They blend together; and the Common Core assessments to come recognize the desegregation of writing genres and the need for performance based assessments.
I’m basing this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/11/21/choosing-a-topic-for-our-ted-com-speeches/</link>
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		<title>Edutopia Post: Common Core Standards and Persuasive Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My new post at Edutopia, &#8220;Persuasive Writing is a Key Focus in Common Core Standards,&#8221; has just gone live. I&#8217;m in high hopes for this new wave of assessments because I see more authenticity and real world application.  For one thing, Persuasive writing (Argumentation) will have a place across the curriculum in the assessments of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/11/03/edutopia-post-common-core-standards-and-persuasive-writing/</link>
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		<title>The Parent Portal: The Pros and Cons of Transparent Gradebooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Parent Portal is now open.  No, this isn’t some Dr. Who vortex waiting to suck away all parents who can&#8217;t seem to drop their kids off on time.  It’s the 24/7 online access to a teacher’s grade book.
 A couple of weeks ago, my school told the staff that they were going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/10/29/the-parent-portal-the-pros-and-cons-of-transparent-gradebooks/</link>
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		<title>How the Interactive Whiteboard is Really Ed Tech&#8217;s Laserdisk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m taking a class at Walden University right now, and a recent prompt asked us to identify a future technology.  I took a moment to reflect on this country&#8217;s current enthusiastic roll-out of Interactive Whiteboards, and why I feel strongly that these are not the best investment for our future in educational technology.
Instead, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/10/23/how-the-interactive-whiteboard-is-really-ed-techs-laserdisk/</link>
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		<title>Free Tweenteacher Webinar: Moving Beyond the Bubble: 21st Century Assessments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Oct 17, I will be presenting a free webinar for my publisher, Eye On Education.  You can register here.
In it, I&#8217;ll be sharing what I have learned about the upcoming Common Core standards and how they will be assessed.  It&#8217;s pretty interesting stuff and, in theory, far more aligned with authenticity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/10/11/free-tweenteacher-webinar-moving-beyond-the-bubble-21st-century-assessments/</link>
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		<title>Huffington Post: &#8220;Student Tributes to Steve Jobs&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just posted &#8220;Student Tributes to Steve Jobs&#8221; at The Huffington Post.  His passing will be a &#8220;Where were you when?&#8221; moment that I felt my students needed to pause and acknowledge.
Wonka has left us with questions about his miraculous factory and the wonders he has taken with him.


&#169; heather for tweenteacher.com, 2011. &#124;
Permalink [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/10/07/huffington-post-student-tributes-to-steve-jobs/</link>
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		<title>Teaching the Executive Summary: Applying Real Life to School Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so there they are: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.  They are in your audience and have their checkbooks out looking for a new cause to fund.  Will it be yours?
So began my schpeel on writing an Executive Summary for this DARPA/NASA Project I’m doing with my students (see earlier posts, “The Power [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/09/24/teaching-the-executive-summary-applying-real-life-to-school-life/</link>
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		<title>Edutopia post: 20 Ways to Model Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My latest post on Edutopia is not just about using technology, but about modeling it as a means to teach it.  After all, students need to be immersed in an environment of usage.  So don&#8217;t feel bad if you don&#8217;t have a computer lab or if your students aren&#8217;t necessarily in front of a computer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/09/20/edutopia-post-20-ways-to-model-technology/</link>
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		<title>DARPA project con’t: Research and Questioning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As my readers may know, my students are planning for the future of the human species.  This year, as I have described in an earlier post, I am dedicating much of the year to Project-Based Learning and trying to make sure that what I’m teaching in the classroom applies directly to skills these kids [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/09/18/darpa-project-con%e2%80%99t-research-and-questioning/</link>
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		<title>The Power of Teaching Something You Know Nothing About</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year, I have decided to teach solely in  Project-Based Writing.  I’m defining Project-Based Writing as a series of constructed units built around authentic assessment, authentic audience, and authentic learning that incorporates the multiple writing genres.  That is, it’s all about blurring the lines between school life and the real world.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/09/06/the-power-of-teaching-something-you-know-nothing-about/</link>
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		<title>Prayer to My Child&#8217;s First Teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had almost forgotten what it felt like to wait with anticipation for the name of my teacher to be posted on a school window.  This year, however, I waited for the first time by the side of my entering Kindergartener.  When the school finally posted the list, his little finger dragging down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/09/01/prayer-to-my-childs-first-teacher/</link>
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		<title>Edutopia post: Open Letter to a New Principal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don&#8217;t read my Edutopia blog, I just wanted to put this particular post on your radar.  As a teacher in a school that has seen tremendous administrative turnover in the last few years, I thought it was worthwhile to give this new one a little advice on the talents of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/08/28/edutopia-post-open-letter-to-a-new-principal/</link>
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		<title>Changing The Teacher Reputation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at a wedding two weeks ago where someone asked me what I did for a living.  “I’m a teacher,” I replied.
“Ohhhhh, teeeeeching,” he said knowingly.  “Must be nice to have so much time off.  Out at 3:00, and only what, 180 days of work?  Nice gig.”  He laughed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/08/21/changing-the-teacher-reputation/</link>
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		<title>Start of the Year Nuts and Bolts: Checklist for the First Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Handout with expectations and grading procedures.  Check.
Publishing Release Form. Check.
PG-13 Video/Clip Release Form to cover me for the whole school year.  Check.
Set up YouTube Channel even though I have no idea how to use it yet.   Check.
Purchased a Blackboard Collaborate account for a 100-person room.  Check.
Tried out said room [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tweenteacher.com/2011/08/19/start-of-the-year-nuts-and-bolts-checklist-for-the-first-day/</link>
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